Edge - Issue 179 - September 2007

Features:

• Heavy Rein (A game version of a film version of Beowulf, but can gaming do justice to Grendel and the mother of all poems?)
• Primal Scourge (The Finest firstperson adventuring meets the Nintendo Wii Remote. We explore Metroid Prime 3: Corruption)
• Brave Nuclear World (Fallout 3 brings us all the fun of the radioactive apocalypse, with mutants, Vault Boy and a fine line in storytelling)
• Finishing The Fight (After the multiplayer beta and the AFRs, we finally get stuck in to the game's singleplayer campaign)
• Speed Freaks (Scream if you want to go faster: the art of speedrunning makes a mockery of the design and pacing of games)
• The Return Of E3 (How the new-look gaming expo played out in Stana Monica)
• Rallying Call (Sega Racing Studio's Guy Wilday on the challenge of reinventing a classic)
• Pocket Pillows (We talk about the state of mobile gaming with developer Capybara)
• Conventional Thinking (How the year's biggest consumer game show in Leipzig is shaping up)
• Heated Debate (Microsoft acts to address hot 360s suffering from the 'ring of death')

Including Previews of:

• Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3)
• The Orange Box (360, PC, PS3)
• Clive Barker's Jericho (360, PS3)
• Tekken 6 (PS3)
• Folklore (PS3)
• Lair (PS3)
• Prototype (TBC)
• Eye Of Judgement (PS3)
• Left 4 Dead (360, PC)
• Forever Blue (Wii)
• Burnout Paradise (360, PS3)
• Rock Band (360, PS3)
• The Simpsons Game (360, PS3)
• Heavenly Sword (PS3)
• Mercenaries 2 (360, PC, PS3)
• White Gold (360, PC)
• The Precursors (360, PC)

Featuring Reviews of:

• The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS)
• Blue Dragon (360)
• Transformers: The Game (360, PC, PS2, PS3, Wii)
• Odin Sphere (PS2)
• Ouendan 2 (DS)
• Monster Madness (360, PC)
• Exit 2 (PSP)
• Hour Of Victory (360)
• Tenchu Z (360)
• Calling All Cars (PS3)
• Graw 2 (PC)
• Anno 1701 (DS)
• More Brain Training (DS)